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Originally Posted by Jimbuna
The answer to that I'm afraid rests on the politicians shoulders solely.
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Who voted for these political "elites", and legitimises them time and again, and with enthusiastic servility subordinates himself under their claim for command and power although history could and should teach everybody for the better...?
Politicians and politics are a symptom only for the state of mind and character the population lives in. Politicians are neither a God-given, nor do they have any natural fundament for their claim to be set above anyone else and living at his/their cost.
We are too many. No one can overwacth it anymore, it is all too big and too much of everything and too complex. Because we are way too many, in every aspect and meaning imaginable. And that is where any attempt to solve things and heal the world must start. Which means short-sighted short cuts and quick solutions will not work. We talk about a decades- and generations project. A jump in intellectual evolution. And as always wioth evoluution, this our species either adapts to the need, or goes extinct. No gain, no loss, just things in motion there.
Its like with interstellar travel. Such travels will need to be thought of not in terms of individual's lifespans, but generations'. Which gives a whole new meaning to the sentence: the cause weighs heavier than the individual life.
The dome of Cologne was build over centuries and generations as well. Compared to the minds of those ancient people nevertheless tarting with it, modern, super-accelerated man has the awareness span of an ant only.
Politicians are not the cause. They are a symptom (that additionally feeds back on itself, however).